From: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
To: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com, Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ntp audit spew.
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 13:01:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHC9VhQBeb6V-RLad+Y92P_a=a_pcZi2b+_VAGzxpbqwBvURUg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2130348.JY4ctgmguH@x2>
On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 9:19 AM Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Monday, September 23, 2019 12:14:14 PM EDT Paul Moore wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 11:50 AM Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
> wrote:
> > > I have some hosts that are constantly spewing audit messages like so:
> > >
> > > [46897.591182] audit: type=1333 audit(1569250288.663:220): op=offset
> > > old=2543677901372 new=2980866217213 [46897.591184] audit: type=1333
> > > audit(1569250288.663:221): op=freq old=-2443166611284 new=-2436281764244
> > > [48850.604005] audit: type=1333 audit(1569252241.675:222): op=offset
> > > old=1850302393317 new=3190241577926 [48850.604008] audit: type=1333
> > > audit(1569252241.675:223): op=freq old=-2436281764244 new=-2413071187316
> > > [49926.567270] audit: type=1333 audit(1569253317.638:224): op=offset
> > > old=2453141035832 new=2372389610455 [49926.567273] audit: type=1333
> > > audit(1569253317.638:225): op=freq old=-2413071187316 new=-2403561671476
> > >
> > > This gets emitted every time ntp makes an adjustment, which is apparently
> > > very frequent on some hosts.
> > >
> > >
> > > Audit isn't even enabled on these machines.
> > >
> > > # auditctl -l
> > > No rules
> >
> > [NOTE: added linux-audit to the CC line]
> >
> > There is an audit mailing list, please CC it when you have audit
> > concerns/questions/etc.
> >
> > What happens when you run 'auditctl -a never,task'?
>
> Actually, "-e 0" should turn it off. There is a general problem where systemd
> turns on auditing just because it can. The above rule just makes audit
> processes inauditable, but does not affect the kernel originating events.
The 'auditctl -s' output was lost when I trimmed/replied to DaveJ's
original email (sorry), but it appears that audit_enabled is already
'0':
> # auditctl -s
> enabled 0
> failure 1
> pid 0
> rate_limit 0
> backlog_limit 64
> lost 0
> backlog 0
> loginuid_immutable 0 unlocked
Original post from DaveJ:
* https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190923155041.GA14807@codemonkey.org.uk
--
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-24 17:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-23 15:50 ntp audit spew Dave Jones
2019-09-23 16:14 ` Paul Moore
2019-09-23 16:58 ` Dave Jones
2019-09-23 18:57 ` Paul Moore
2019-09-23 19:49 ` Dave Jones
2019-09-23 19:49 ` Eric Paris
2019-09-24 2:39 ` Paul Moore
2019-09-24 13:30 ` Steve Grubb
2019-09-23 21:00 ` Richard Guy Briggs
2019-09-24 3:01 ` Paul Moore
2019-09-24 13:50 ` Richard Guy Briggs
2019-09-24 17:05 ` Paul Moore
2019-09-26 15:50 ` Paul Moore
2019-09-24 13:19 ` Steve Grubb
2019-09-24 17:01 ` Paul Moore [this message]
2019-10-31 16:39 ` [PATCH] audit: set context->dummy even when audit is off Chris Mason
2019-10-31 16:39 ` Chris Mason
2019-10-31 23:27 ` Paul Moore
2019-11-01 13:24 ` Chris Mason
2019-11-01 14:16 ` Steve Grubb
2019-11-01 14:26 ` Lenny Bruzenak
2019-11-01 14:49 ` Steve Grubb
2019-11-01 14:58 ` Lenny Bruzenak
2019-11-01 15:55 ` Chris Mason
2019-11-05 0:15 ` Paul Moore
2019-11-05 0:39 ` Chris Mason
2019-11-05 0:45 ` Paul Moore
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